This battle was a meatgrinder not a battle of manoeuvre, thrust and parry and they may have had HT and some may have been used in this battle but I didn't find any info to indicate they did In reality, the Russians had at least 8:1 odds in manpower. Not every "German" unit in the game has one and there are plenty of units with 98ks but I did add a few here and there to again.balance the game. As for StG44s, you show the inventory of ONE of the units represented and one units inventory is one units inventory not every unit. and tossing in panthers and 94 APC's would mean having to give the Russians more to maintain the balance and they are only 90 units from the max and then you have a monster NOBODY wants to play. If you go back and read the introduction you will see I did say historically recreating this as one event is impossible and what's there is an attempt to recreate the feel. Looks like there were no StG44s in the inventory at that time. All in all the infantry seems to have been organized as Panzergrenadiers, so that would probably be more correct than the SS Infanterie Units. They also report 94 apcs and scout vehicles. They had 10 Stugs, 1 Panzer IV and 5 Panthers that were "ready for action". I have the strength reports for the 11th Nordland Division from June 1944. Map and Scenario Creation by Don Goodbrand*īTW, I dunno how accurate you want to make this, so feel free to ignore this, but in case you are interested. As no successful breakthrough was made in the Sinimaed Hills, the Red Army was unable to establish control on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland which delayed Finland's exit from the war until the beginning of September.* Estonia was captured a month later from the south-east. The Red Army failed to seize Estonia at this time which granted tens of thousands of Estonians more time to flee to the West. The historic outcome of this series of battles was a defeat for the Russians with casualties estimated at ten times the losses of the formations commanded by the Germans. 22,000 men which held off an estimated 136,000 Soviet troops and the game simply cannot portray that accurately without breaking the battle down into a series of smaller events so this scenario is an attempt to recreate the general feel of the battle* In the small area represented by this map the Germans commanded a force of just over. To truly recreate this battle correctly it should be broken down into a mini-campaign but even that would be difficult. This scenario compresses the battle to one event. During World War II the German army built up powerful defensive positions in the Sinimaed Hills.* The first defensive structures at Sinimaed were built as early as during the Great Northern War (1700-1721). The Sinimaed Hills were a good defensive position to control the Narva-Tallinn road on the isthmus between the sea and the great bogs to the south. The most intense battles took place between 27 and 30 July with the Sinimaed Hills passing from one side to the other many times.* The first Soviet infantry attacks on the hills were made on 26 July. The Soviet artillery and air forces began bombing the Sinimaed Hills on 25 July. Filipp Starikov along with independent artillery, air and armoured vehicle units.* Ivan Fedyuninsky and the 8th Army commanded by Lt. On the attacking Soviet side were the rifle corps and divisions subordinate to the Russian 2nd Shock Army commanded by Lt. As well there were units of the 4th SS Brigade Nederland, made up of Dutch volunteers as well as the Flemish SS Battalion Langemarck and the Walloon SS Battalion Wallonien along with other support units.* Roughly half of the infantry consisted of local Estonian conscripts of the 20th Estonian SS Division who were highly motivated to resist the looming Soviet re-occupation. The German defences were made up of troops of many different European nationalities and included the 11th SS Division Nordland made up of Norwegians and Danes. In the Sinimaed Hills, the III German Panzer Corps was Commanded by Waffen-SS Obergruppenfuhrer Felix Steiner. Germany (Defend) vs Soviet Russia (Assault)* The scenario was designed to be played as P1 ( German ) but playtesting has shown it is playable from both sidesīATTLE LOCATION: The Sinimaed Hills about 20 km west of Narva, Estonia* eventually.Įxtract the scenario to the games Scenarios folder and the Graphics to the Game Data/ Graphics folder This will be the standard black flag when we release another patch upgrade. This is not "political correctness" it's a way to allow scenario designers to differentiate the difference between the two. In this scenario, it is used to represent the non-German SS units that were involved. The old one with the yellow outline has been replaced by the grey/ black one on the right. One is the new graphic files with a slightly altered black "rebel" ID tag and V hex flag to expand it's use.
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